So you do wonder, if she knows that's the case, why David Cameron and the Shadow Cabinet have still been sent to "ginger up" her party's "lacklustre" performance North of the Border - again these are not my words, but instead the rather more scathing words of the Torygraph.

The report said that with the "lacklustre" economy operating at about 4% below potential, there was room to hold off on some of the Government's austerity programme, adding this would be acceptable because borrowing costs are currently so low.